The Nicodemus enterprise. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1887-1887, 1887-08-31
WASHINGTON.
The president will visit Memphis, Tennee.
see, during his western trip.

The president will visit Memphis, Tennes.
see, during his western trip.
The comptroller Of the treasury Monday
authorized the First National bank of Madi-
son, Neb., to begin business with capital of
$50 900.
The treasury department on Wednesday re.
ceived application for payment of interest on
So, $50 bonds, making altogether to the
10th inst. 80 S22, $50.
The president pardoned William Sweeny,
sentenced to serve term of five years in the
Albany penitentiary for robbery, on account
of his good war record.
Applications were received at the treasury
department Thursday for prepay ment of it,
terest on losses amounting to S., 32S, 800, max
ing the total to date 500 6l0, 450.
Secretary Fairchi}d Thursday appointed
John Il Keatley, Of Iowa, to be chief of the
miscellaneous division of the second cOmptrol-
ler's office, vice Oscar Harvey, dismissed.
j. H. Page, a book keeper of the lagge
stationary house ofC. o. Benchemin 81 Co.,
of Montreal, raised s25 check to $25, GOO, on
the Jacques Cartier bank, Tuesday, had it
cashed, and absconded.
The comptroller of the currency has de-
clared the first dividend of IS per cent. in
| favor of the creditors Of the First National
bank of Livingston, NJ. T., on claims proved
amounting to SOS, $50.
The United States currency having accumu.
lated supply Of 81 and 50 silver certificates
sufficient to meet the current heavy demand,
was arranged for the prompt delivery Of these
notes Is banks, bankers and others making
the required deposit from and after Monday.
| The issue Of these notes has been suspended
since the 1st of May last.
The aGjutant-general has received dispatch
from Mai Randle't, Of the Ninth infantry, in
command o. Fort Duchespc, under date of
AUGUST IG, saying that word received from a
reliable agency employe on the 18th was to
The cite ct that every thin vas all right on the
Blue mountains. The whites seem to think
that the people around Meeker are badly
scared. He mad seen nobody who knows any
! thing from Meeker. The Indians living al
the agencies are undisturbCd and are all at
home. Old COlorow is said TO be hunting in
the mountains of Coloraio, and young Colo
row, his son, is with McAndrews, the employe
from whom the word was received.
The interior department authorities srt
coming to the conclusion that the detail OF
army officers for the care of Yellowstone park
is preferable tc the employment OF civilian
superintendents, and 1t is not unlikely that
Secretary Lamar will make q recommendation
to the coming congress that FOR the present
no further appropriation for salaries FOR
civilian superintendent be made The park
has never been better managed than under
Capt. Harris, of the FIRST cavalry, who has
had charge of It since partisan general In
congress threw Col. Wear, OF Missouri, out Of
his lob as superintendent into better one as
elief of division in the pension Office. and tbs
secretary is disposed TO leave the park in the
hands of army officers.
| The secretary Of rhe navy Monday awarded
contracts for the contract for i've new nsva
vessels, for which bids were opened recently.
Cramp & Sons have secured the contract tc
build two, the Union Steel werlls, Of San
Francisco, one, and y. Z. Palmer, IT., & Co,
Of New York. Roaeh's assignees, two The
bid of the Union Iron WORKS Tor cruiser No.
was SIS, COO over that OF C-amp & Sons. Tho
secretary left 1t to the president to decide
whether the bid OF the Union Irou works Wa:
a fair price for the work. The president made
reply, in which he stated hat tie difference
would lot more than cover the difference
against the Pactdc COST Of the cost OF Deces
s2ry trans ortation sad the bid no: being n
excess Of = fair cost Of sgcn = ship, he direct
"a that the award lie made - the Ca'itornia
arm in accordance with the Instructions o.